Sun, Yue; Zhao, Liqiu; Zhao, Zhong - 2024
Under China's household registration (hukou) system, children with rural hukou lack equal access to education in urban … areas. This paper investigates the causal effect of hukou status on children's education by exploiting an exogenous change … in hukou status induced by the hukou reform in 1998. Before the reform, children could only inherit their mother's hukou …